Cricket's version of the Oscars - 2017

Best cricketer (female): Suzie Bates

A three-time winner of the ICC Cricketer of the Year, Suzie Bates had yet another fantastic year while playing for the New Zealand cricket team.She has been playing cricket for the past 10 years and featured in 96 ODIs for the Kiwis and has scored 3430 runs in 92 innings at an average of 41.32.

She has also performed well with the ball as she has taken 72 wickets in 94 matches at an average of 29.31.

Best supporting cricketer: David Warner

Fans wonder what David Warner had to do to be nominated for the Best cricketer rather than being nominated for the supporting act. He did almost everything right this year except for captaining a side..oh wait, he did that too, and was successful at it in the IPL with the Sunrisers Hyderabad.

In the last 12 months alone, he notched up 7 ODI centuries, second most by any batsman in a calendar year after Sachin Tendulkar’s 9 ODI tons in 1998.

Unlike Sachin, who took 34 innings to score these 9 centuries in 1998, Warner scored all his runs in just 23 innings at an average of 63.09 and a strike-rate of 105.47.